Maguindanao language

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Maguindanao

Native to Philippines

Region Southwest Mindanao

Ethnicity Maguindanao people

Native speakers 1.1 million (2010)[1]

Language family Austronesian

 Malayo-Polynesian
o Philippine
 Greater Central Philippine
 Danao
 Maguindanao

Writing system Latin;

Historically Jawi

Official status

Official language in Regional language in the Philippines

Regulated by Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino

Language codes

ISO 639-3 mdh

Glottolog magu1243 [2]

 Area where Maguindanaoan is spoken

Maguindanao or Maguindanaon is an Austronesian language spoken by majority of the population

of Maguindanao province in the Philippines. It is also spoken by sizable minorities in different parts
of Mindanao such as the cities of Zamboanga, Davao, and General Santos, and the provinces
of North Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, South Cotabato, Sarangani, Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga
Sibugay, as well as Metro Manila. This was the language of the historic Sultanate of Maguindanao,
which existed before and during the Spanish colonial period from 1500–1888.

See also[edit]
 Languages of the Philippines

References[edit]
1. ^ Maguindanao at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Maguindanao". Glottolog
3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.